Looking for Miracles by Lynn Bulock

Author:Lynn Bulock [Bulock, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2012-02-14T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

First day at work. First kiss from Mike. Lori wasn’t sure which exhausted her the most. Maybe it was the combination of the two that made her want to go to sleep that night when Tyler went to bed at eight.

If it wasn’t for Mikayla having one of her bouncy, awake periods, she might have put on her pajamas right away and gone to bed like Tyler. However, somebody had to be the grown-up and stay up and do a few things during the evening, so Lori elected herself.

She didn’t feel much like the person in charge tonight. Surely the person in charge wouldn’t have agreed to be kissed like that today. Nor should a responsible woman with two children depending on her for everything enjoy such things so much. Or be unable to get them out of her head. Why did that one kiss insist on replaying itself over and over until Lori could see and feel Mike’s embrace without closing her eyes or pausing in folding the basket of laundry in front of her.

It wasn’t fair. Surely she should be able to enjoy one harmless kiss and then be able to forget it. Surely Michael had done just that. He wasn’t sitting next door remembering every detail of that brief moment like she was. No, he was probably doing some of the paperwork he had left at the end of the day, or watching television.

“Just forget he’s over there. You can do that,” she said out loud. Her words echoed in the small living room.

Hearing the truck start outside, Lori changed her estimation of what Mike was doing. Apparently instead of doing any of the things she imagined, including reviewing their encounter, he was answering a fire-and-rescue call with the rest of the volunteers. Lori looked out the window of the front room in time to see the truck, its removable blue light plugged in and flashing to advertise its status, pulling out of the long gravel drive.

Dear Lord, keep him safe. Let him come back to me all right. The prayer was as natural and easy as any she’d ever prayed. And it dumbfounded her the moment the words were out. Whoever said Michael would come back to her? Of course he’d come back safely, as soon as the barn fire or smoldering car, or whatever emergency had called the volunteers, was under control. But he wouldn’t be coming back to her. Because he wasn’t hers to begin with.

Lori looked down at the laundry she was folding again. Tyler’s blue jeans, a soft chambray shirt that she could use for work if she dressed it up with a scarf. Mikayla’s little footed sleepers. This was the fabric of her life. Surely there was no room for care and concern for a man. Not even one as attractive and available as Mike Martin.

Except that he had worked his way into her life, becoming part of the fabric as strongly woven in as the laundry in front of her.

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